Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for adults with shock-refractory cardiac arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation has increasingly emerged as a feasible treatment to mitigate the progressive multiorgan dysfunction that occurs during cardiac arrest, in support of further resuscitation efforts.

Objectives

Because the recent systematic review commissioned in 2018 by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation Advanced Life Support task did not include studies without a control group, our objective was to conduct a review incorporating these studies to increase available evidence supporting the use of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) for cardiac arrest patients, while waiting for high-quality evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

Methods

MEDLINE, Embase, and Science Citation Index (W

SUBMITTER: Miraglia D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7813516 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature